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An Ethical Justification For The Chronic Care Model (Ccm), Liviu Oprea, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, Wendy Rogers, Nigel P. Stocks Jan 2010

An Ethical Justification For The Chronic Care Model (Ccm), Liviu Oprea, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, Wendy Rogers, Nigel P. Stocks

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Background:  Chronic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Their effects can be mitigated by high quality evidence‐based care, but this is not the norm in most systems. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is an evidence‐based policy response to this practice gap, which uses multiple strategies to promote the quality of chronic care. Objective:  To review CCM with an ethical lens. Methods:  We reviewed the published empirical and non‐empirical articles of CCM to analyse the ethical underpinnings of this model. Results and conclusions:  We argue that its principal ethical value lies in the institutional cooperation it …


Child Care: Welfare Or Investment?, Amy Conley Wright Jan 2010

Child Care: Welfare Or Investment?, Amy Conley Wright

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Childcare (also called day care or preschool) has generally served three purposes: to care for children while parents are employed; to provide early childhood education; and to cater to the needs of poor and disadvantaged children. This article proposes that the welfare approach to childcare be augmented by a social investment approach to enhance human and social capital investments among low income families and communities and to contribute to wider social development goals. The Head Start program in the United States and the Integrated Child Development Scheme in India are used to illustrate this argument.